Projeto piloto para implantação de um sistema de gestão ambiental: estudo de caso em uma empresa do ramo calçadista

Abstract

The environmental sustainability has been increasingly evident in the companies in the current context and has been leveraged new approaches related to the development of products and services. Therefore, industries and companies seek to improve the environmental management of their processes aiming to reduce their environmental impacts and act in a systematic way considering an environmental variable at strategic level. Through the implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS), companies’ direct strategies to reduce their environmental impacts and, in addiction, conquer bigger representation and credibility in the market they operate, having in sight the robustness of the model of EMS implanted. That said, it has been realized a case study of the implementation of an EMS based in the standard NBR ISO 14001 in a company that works in the footwear industry, during the fourteen-month period, analyzing the main actions and method chosen through a Pilot Project. The research has counted on interviews realized with the responsible for the implementation of EMS and the straight observation of the activities that were performing. The study has enabled diagnosis the main advantages of applying the Pilot for the organization, also cataloguing the main challenges. As complementation, it has been suggested some proposals to the improvement of the EMS development in the company.